The house slept around me, its stillness a seemingly endless barrage on the senses. Every movement I made in bed sounded throughout the room and the residence. Occasionally I’d hear the odd pair of drunken partygoers passing through the neighbourhood on their way home. An hour ago, I’d listened as my brother came home, drunk and stumbling up the stairs noisily. Since then I couldn’t sleep, and I had idly trawled through my phone, its blue light a detrimental factor to my failin